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Did Jack really have to die in Titanic? And other onscreen oddities

Kate Winslet sides with fans that argue Jack didn’t have to die in Titanic. Would these other actors like to own up to their own onscreen oddities?

Imagine what the future might have held for Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) if both survived Titanic. (Paramount Pictures)

By Ryan PorterEntertainment Reporter

Fri., Feb. 5, 2016

If only Rose had been willing to scooch over a little bit on that door at the end of Titanic. Jack could have lived and we would be well onto Titanic 7: Ships in the Night by now.

Kate Winslet, a Best Supporting Actress nominee for Steve Jobs, admitted as much to Jimmy Kimmel on Monday. “I think he could have actually fitted on that bit of door,” she said, responding to the popular “Room for two on Titanic door” meme.

With Winslet making the pop-culture sphere a safe space for sharing, perhaps these other actors would like to fess up to their famous characters’ onscreen scandals.

Six friends, sharing a sofa ... in an uncommonly huge Manhattan apartment.

Friends’ Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston apologize for. . .

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. . . perpetuating the myth that 1,200-square-foot two-bedroom apartments are available in Greenwich Village on a chef and a waitress’s salary.

Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote: the smile of a murderer?

Murder, She Wrote’s Tom Bosley apologizes for. . .

. . . not opening a full investigation into Jessica Fletcher, who was connected to so many murders in Cabot Cove, Maine, BBC Radio 4 determined it had 60 percent more murders per capita than the real-world murder capital of Honduras.

Winnie the Pooh: red shirt, no pants.

Winnie the Pooh apologizes for. . .

. . . building a career as a children’s entertainer that only performs bottomless.

King Kong (EI Scan)

King Kong’s Naomi Watts is so, so sorry. . .

. . . that she couldn’t give you a happier ending and fall in love with a giant gorilla.

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